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aikohualda on 20 June 2013

but they are not done blocking Nintendo... hey ho!



 

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cablebox on 20 June 2013
aikohualda said:
but they are not done blocking Nintendo... hey ho!


porting games for 30-50k sales is not worth it

Ail on 20 June 2013
BenVTrigger said:
disolitude said:
They just want to be ahead of the curve.

In 2-3 years, retail based sales should be dwarfed by digital. And since there will be no selling, trading or sharing of games on digital any time soon, EA can relax and play the good guy now to reap the benefits later.


Not happening.

Maybe in 6-7 years.


That's what music studio and book publishers said.

 

Almost every PS3 title released in the last 12 month was day one digital day release...

What's going to happen next ( it already started with PS+) is old digital games will be discounted  online, affecting gamestop abilities to resell used copies of those games...( Gamestop sells used AC3 for 19$, a couple weeks ago  AC3 + all 3 DLC was 25$ on PSN)

Must be pretty hard already to sell used copies of all those games that have been part of the PS+ instant game collection....

 

By the way what is Gamestop marketshare on PC game sales compared to what it was 10 years ago ?



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Otakumegane on 20 June 2013

Microtransactions will make up the loss of used games.



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie  Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)

fillet on 20 June 2013
disolitude said:
They just want to be ahead of the curve.

In 2-3 years, retail based sales should be dwarfed by digital. And since there will be no selling, trading or sharing of games on digital any time soon, EA can relax and play the good guy now to reap the benefits later.


Likely this coupled with the speech being prepared before the Xbox One DRM announcment yesterday :D



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the2real4mafol on 20 June 2013

Good, now to end day one DLC.



Xbox One, PS4 and Switch (+ Many Retro Consoles)

'When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the people's stick'- Mikhail Bakunin

Prediction: Switch will sell better than Wii U Lifetime Sales by Jan 1st 2018

Slimebeast on 20 June 2013
disolitude said:
They just want to be ahead of the curve.

In 2-3 years, retail based sales should be dwarfed by digital. And since there will be no selling, trading or sharing of games on digital any time soon, EA can relax and play the good guy now to reap the benefits later.

Exactly.

That's I think was Microsoft's biggest mistake with this whole DRM and 24-hours online check thing. It would quickly have fixed itself naturally in only a few years!

They were out of touch with consumer trends and reading the market, so they underestimated the backlash.

They shouldn't have wasted so much good-will in enforcing this change pre-maturely, when the digital revolution is right upon us very soon anyway.